I agree that curation is a bit gack. Personally I find 80-90% of the hot and trending posts to be worthless to me, clearly they are worthwhile to the authors and upvoters, but that doesn't help me find content I'm interested in. I mostly prefer posts relating to art and music and other creative endeavours and I try to resteem these the most, but my follower count is so small that my resteems are fairly useless, I almost just use it as a way to remember what posts I enjoyed.
Another point I agree with is the problem of the seven day lifespan of posts. I wish there was some way to still give older posts value because occasionally I stumble upon something that I would like to reward but it's over seven days old.
Now, onto the things I'm confused about. What exactly is it that you are looking for? I mean, you mention the idea economy and go on to suggest topics to do with economics, technology and steem/steemit, am I to assume this is another attempt at curating only those topics? Because I think steemit is already saturated with those topics and I don't think it helps new people coming here from different areas in life, I mean, if I'm a games reviewer or a journalist, or just an average person looking to try something new, I would quickly become bored with the site due to a lack of content that doesn't revolve around steemit, cryptocurrencies, and mundane "how to write a better blog" posts. What I'm trying to get at is, I would like to get my friends on steemit but currently they are not going to like it because there is nothing here that interests thtem, and anything they might post is going to be lost to the ether because it's not got to do with the topics mentioned above.
Anyway, that's just my opinion, I'm sorry it's so long. I mean, clearly this isn't going to be the solution I'm looking for, for my own tastes at least. Anyway, I wish you luck, and I'll keep an eye out to see how this progresses. And, again, I'm sorry about the length of this reply.
Good post..interestingly though, I think the most popular topic on steemit is photography
You have a point, it is one of the most popular tags, definitely, but it's being over used on things that I wouldn't really call photography. But just because a tag is popular doesn't mean the topic is popular. I just had a quick look at the hot posts, I scrolled the page down twice, and there are maybe five or six things I'm interested in and maybe one or two that I'll probably upvote, and that's the best it's been in I don't know how long, and not one of them is to do with photography. But I'm just a picky bastard, I have very specific tastes and they'll never be met by hot/trending topics on any website, it's not just steemit I have this problem with, haha.
You'd think steemit would have a google type search bar or something to help with keyword search on the site.
Well there is a search function, powered by google too, but it's not the best.
A way you can help give value to an old post is by making an engaging comment for the author to reply to, and upvote the comment they reply on. Or, upvote a similar topic of theirs. I was actually just thinking about that today and I think that would be the best way. Even going as far to say "Please reply to my comment because your post is no longer within the upvoting time, so that I can give you an upvote." OR SOMETHING. But that's one way you can still contribute to that post specifically.
This is something I've considered as well. I just wasn't sure if comment rewards were tied to post rewards or not, as in once the post pays out the comments no longer pay out. I also considered upvoting more recent posts telling the author that I'm upvoting because of an older post and giving a link to the older post.
I suppose there are ways around the seven day limit.
I think that it only counts for comments that are also older than 7 days old. I don't think it would let you upvote if a new comment on the post wouldn't be pay-out-able.
I think you can still upvote posts that are older than seven days old, so I don't see why it wouldn't let you vote for a comment even though it won't pay out. I'm probably wrong, though, I still don't quite understand how everything works here, haha.
Have you tried upvoting something older than 7 days? I haven't in a while, but I think it gave me an error message. Haha I don't quite remember.
I think when I first started I upvoted an older post, but I can't remember.
I think it does not earn anything after 7 days. I was thinking about a way around that. If I'd leave a comment on the "old post" and the author responds to that, the comment itself CAN still earn since it would be younger than 7 days. So people who re-discover the author could sill support them!
Exactly!
That is Genius.
Regarding your questions this post might explain better what my personal curation goal is and how my personal filter works;
https://steemit.com/curation/@the-traveller/upvoting-is-not-curation-so-i-want-to-manually-solve-curation-for-my-own-purposes
Did you mean to link to this post: https://steemit.com/idea-economy/@the-traveller/idea-economy-curated-library-post
I've read through it and it seems it's just yet another place I don't really fit in, haha. Thanks anyway. I'll be sure to keep an eye on what you're sharing in the future, I might find something of interest.
Hehe that is unfortunately the flipside of curation. Can't please everyone. I'd highly encourage you to make your own version I d be happy to mention it in the weekly library posts...
I think I'll have to try that once I have enough followers that engage with my posts to suggest things I'll enjoy. For now though, I guess I'll just have to keep doing it the hard way, haha.
Don't underesrimate how much followers it can generate for you. I'd start soon. If you have evernote it is easy just clip it to evernote under a specifuc tag once a week and copy paste et voilá!
I'll have to look into it.
Happy to mention it once you have it up, just mention a link here please!